5.  Miscellaneous:-

“Home Office Know-How” by Jeffery D. Zbar (Upstart Publishing)

“The New American Dictionary of First Names” by Leslie Dunkling & William Gosling (Signet)

“Roget’s Thesaurus” (also available in Microsoft Word on most computers under “Tools – Language”)

"Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged"

"The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English"

"National Geographic Atlas of the World" (for location) or check out http://www.maps.com

Travel guides such as Fodor’s or Berlitz

Local street maps and telephone directories (to avoid using a real person’s name or street when writing fiction)

History books (for background)

Department Store catalogues (photos of the models can provide descriptions of the protagonist or other characters in your story or book)

Books in the genre you want to write in (study the author’s techniques which brought about successful publication)

6.  Magazines:-

“Writer’s Digest” (F & W Publications, Ohio, U.S.A.)

(“Writer’s Digest also puts out special issues throughout the year)

“The Writer” (Kalmbach Publishing, Boston, U.S.A.)

“Writers’ Journal” (Val-Tech Media, Minnesota, U.S.A.)

“Writing Magazine” (U.K.)

“Writers’ News” (U.K.)

7.  Audiotapes:-

Writer’s Audio Shop, produced by Davenport Productions, Austin, Texas.  I took some of these tapes with me on a vacation that involved a long coach trip from Devon to Scotland and back.  The tapes helped pass the time in a constructive way.

8.  Libraries:-

You can spend hours in a public library, reading or writing, and no one dare disturb you!  Many libraries also have Internet facilities at quite reasonable rates. 

Unfortunately, we don’t have state of the art libraries in the Bahamas as in other parts of the world.

One of our public libraries is situated on Mackey Street, Nassau, up the street from Paradise Island’s exit bridge.  The librarians are helpful and there’s a good selection of fiction and non-fiction.  The library also brings in the latest bestsellers along with local and international newspapers, but the interior is cramped, with no room for expansion.